Everything to Know About Elizabeth Olsen’s New HBO Max Series ‘Love and Death’
usmagazine.comMurder in the heartland. Elizabeth Olsen plays a Texas housewife with a very dark secret in HBO Max’s new series Love & Death.The show is based on the true story of Candy Montgomery, who was accused in 1980 of brutally murdering her best friend Betty Gore.
Candy, then 30, was married to an electrical engineer named Pat Montgomery, while Betty was married to Allan Gore.
At the time, Candy was having affair with Allan. Candy claimed that Betty attacked her with an axe after discovering the infidelity, but she managed to take control of the weapon and strike Betty.
She pleaded self-defense and was ultimately found not guilty, though she admitted to slashing Betty with the axe 41 times.If this story sounds familiar, it might be because there was already a TV show about it.
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